Malaria_Kidd II wrote: ↑11-26-2017 04:02 PM
No news in the last week and a half hopefully is good news!
MK II
Here's some related news that should bring cause for pause
Flight Risk: There Is No National Plan To Deal With Contagious Diseases On Airplanes
“The United States lacks a comprehensive national aviation-preparedness plan aimed at preventing and containing the spread of diseases through air travel,” a 2015 investigation by the GAO found. Almost two years later, there is still no plan.
While many individual airports have plans of their own, these are designed to deal with a communicable disease on only one or two inbound planes, not a full-blown epidemic that could involve dozens of planes flying to airports across the U.S., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Countries are required to have a national aviation preparedness plan for communicable diseases under a 2007 addition to the Chicago Convention, an international aviation treaty signed by the U.S. and other nations.
Both the U.S. Department of Transportation and CDC agreed such a plan could have value. But both felt another agency, not their own, should lead the effort.
In response to questions, CDC issued a statement saying, “Relevant agencies have met around the concept of developing a National aviation communicable disease response plan.”
Jonathan D. Quick, a faculty member at Harvard University and author of the forthcoming book, “The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It,” said a national plan should be put in place.
“Unfortunately,” he added, “the history of diseases is that things that should be done aren’t done until there’s an outbreak.”
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